Emerging Europe

30/08/2024

Get ready to transform your approach to media content at our UNLOCK THE POWER OF MEDIA CONTENT webinar!

🗓️ Date: Tuesday, September 3rd

⏰ Time: 10.00 CEST / 11.00 EEST

The webinar will be led by Craig Turp-Balazs, editor of Emerging Europe, who brings a wealth of experience in journalism and media strategy, having advised high-profile organisations and supported start-ups across Emerging Europe and Central Asia.

💡 What you will learn:

• Optimal timing for media content creation
• Journalistic preferences and how to meet them
• The critical differences between editorial and marketing material
• The impact of visuals in media

Hosted in the She's Next Empowered by Visa in partnership with Emerging Europe platform, it is a must for entrepreneurs eager to master media content creation and leverage it for business growth.

SECURE YOUR PLACE: https://shesnext.emergingeurope.org/unlock-the-power-of-media-content-webinar/

16/07/2024

🌟Stand Out and Shine!
Ukrainian women entrepreneurs, this is your moment!
Showcase your amazing start-up to the world and gain the international recognition you deserve.

Join the EIT Red Kalyna programme and:
👉 Get noticed on a global stage
👉 Connect with a powerful network of female leaders
👉 Fuel your innovation and take your start-up to new heights!

It's completely free to apply!
Click here to nominate yourself or your friend: https://eit-ris.eu/red-kalyna/red-kalyna-application-form-for-individuals/

Innovate with pride, and celebrate Ukrainian resilience!


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04/07/2024

🎙️ Join us for the second episode of InnoStars Talks, an engaging podcast series presented by EIT Health in partnership with Emerging Europe! Get ready for insightful discussions with health innovators transforming the medical landscape.

🎙️ Join us for the second episode of InnoStars Talks, an engaging podcast series presented by EIT Health in partnership with Emerging Europe! Get ready for insightful discussions with health innovators transforming the medical landscape.

👥 In our latest episode, we feature Maurizio Ferrari from SYNLAB Italia. Tune in as he shares his journey and the groundbreaking advancements in diagnostic biomarkers and testing methodologies.

Synlab Italy, a key partner in our InnoStars Connect programme, is at the forefront of innovation in the health sector. Their commitment to enhancing diagnostic accuracy and efficiency paves the way for improved patient outcomes.

In this episode, you'll learn how Synlab's cutting-edge technologies are significantly impacting healthcare and how they plan to engage in further development phases.

👉 Listen now and be inspired: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4djub6LiOPx4hOhY6YDVro?si=fUpOohKWR1OCaIo0qZbJuQ

29/05/2024

🇲🇩 Recent amendments effective from February 2024 enhance the for residents of the Moldova Innovation Technology Park and include:

👨🏻‍⚖️ Extension of the IT park's to 20 years, subject to the Government's adjustment of the subsidiary framework.

📈 Extension of the state guarantee until 2035, ensuring for residents despite potential future tax regime alterations.

👩🏻‍💻 Inclusion of new export-oriented activities as eligible within the park: activities and other and post-production services for media content, exclusively for the sector.

👉🏼 Get your copy of our guide to Europe's next tech powerhouse: https://hubs.la/Q02tNJqB0

The IT Investment Guide for Moldova features insight from 970 C-level executives across 7 markets, 218 MITP residents, and 20 IT leaders from across the globe.

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27/05/2024

For the She's Next Empowered by Visa in partnership with Emerging Europe initiative, we surveyed 2,000 female entrepreneurs and held in-depth interviews with over 75 female business leaders across 11 different markets.

🔹 KEY FINDING #5 — GENDER DISCRIMINATION REMAINS A CHALLENGE 🔹

emerges as a significant challenge, particularly in male-dominated industries.

Endogenous cultural factors may play a major role in the development of the business and the of women entrepreneurs in local culture is said to be a hindrance.

Although gender issues were not emphasised in the survey results, they were frequently discussed during the in-depth interviews.

They can be grouped into 5 broad categories:

💰 access to capital
🏡 work-life balance
🙇🏻‍♀️ cultural stereotypes and discrimination
👩🏻‍🏫 lack of role models
🔗 limited access to networks

👉🏼 Get your copy of the Female Entrepreneurship in Eastern and Southeastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus report here https://hubs.la/Q02tBZsP0

15/05/2024

🇲🇩 ’s external trade developed strongly in 2022 with a 37.9% increase in exports, much of this driven by the services sector.

📈 The sector’s share in the country’s GDP now tops 5% — surpassing the industry, which until recent years was the leading sector in the country's economy.

The IT Investment Guide for Moldova features insight from over 1,000 business representatives and several from companies including Amdaris Bloomcoding bully! entertainment Crunchyroll FusionWorks Orange Software Mind Romania & Moldova Stefanini Group

👉🏼 Get your hands on a wealth of insight about Europe's next powerhouse: https://hubs.la/Q02tN-k80

13/05/2024

For the She's Next Empowered by Visa in partnership with Emerging Europe initiative, we surveyed 2,000 female entrepreneurs and held in-depth interviews with over 75 female business leaders across 11 different markets.

KEY FINDING #4 — OPTIMISM AND CONFIDENCE PREVAIL

The vast majority of female entrepreneurs have a positive outlook for the near future or at least maintain current operations.

They actively seek to enhance their skills and are interested in exploring new opportunities and new international markets.

Just how optimistic are they in the short term?

🟢 65% expect their business to grow
🟡 27% expect to remain where they are
🔴 6.7% expect operations and sales to shrink

Here are the countries with the most optimistic female entrepreneurs in terms of business growth expectations:

: 85%
: 78.9%
: 70%

And the countries with the less optimistic ones:

: 54.4%
: 55%
: 56%

👉🏼 Get your copy of the Female Entrepreneurship in Eastern and Southeastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus report here https://hubs.la/Q02tC6Yh0

06/05/2024

For the She's Next Empowered by Visa in partnership with Emerging Europe initiative, we surveyed 2,000 female entrepreneurs and held in-depth interviews with over 75 female business leaders across 11 different markets.

KEY FINDING #3 — Perseverance is a major strength

Female entrepreneurs in the region exemplify unyielding determination, refusing to give up and persistently paving their path to success.

💪🏻 The top 5 strengths female entrepreneurs identify as their biggest strengths are:

31.2% Self-motivation
25.7% Hard work
25.2% Self-discipline
24.0% Persistence
22.9% Creative thinking

💡 Surprisingly, participants of the survey did not appreciate to the extent the participants of in-depth interviews did – only 10.7% mentioned it as a quality that drives their business development.

👉🏼 Get your copy of the Female Entrepreneurship in Eastern and Southeastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus report here https://hubs.la/Q02tC7bb0

03/05/2024

🇱🇹 A regulatory environment conducive to the development of the industry, and ongoing dialogue between market players and institutions has helped sustain its position as a fintech hub.

⏫ Lithuania’s financial technology sector remains robust and forward-moving, affirming its place as a key hub for fintech innovation in Europe.

Invest Lithuania's new report highlights the sector’s continued development in the country throughout 2023, despite a challenging economic landscape worldwide.

There has been no shortage of success stories, including TransferGo, HeavyFinance, ConnectPay, and Axiology.

🔗 Read more: https://hubs.la/Q02tRCfc0

02/05/2024

The EU’s poor record in the over the past decade does not bode well for further enlargement.

As we remember the success of 2004, it’s time to remember that the EU once openly embraced a large part of the European continent. It can do so again.

The event was not just a but also a transformative economic and process aimed at unifying a continent once divided by the .

20 years on, the success of the 2004 enlargement is almost indisputable. Every country part of the cohort is considerably , and—with one notable exception— .

By integrating countries that historically leant towards ( is the latest to pivot), the EU can present an alternative that aligns more closely with Western values and economic systems.

https://hubs.la/Q02tRwqm0

30/04/2024

🇲🇩 Did you know that the Moldova Innovation Technology Park offers residents:

🔸 Flexibility to in

🔸 from abroad

🔸 A administration with a single 7% tax on sales revenue, replacing 7 other taxes

🔸 of foreign nationals through the IT Visa Programme

🔸 No for the employer or its employees.

Plus, are not subject to any salary withholdings — the gross and net salaries are equal, while employees enjoy full state and limited benefits.

👉🏼 Get your hands on a wealth of insight about Europe's next tech powerhouse: https://hubs.la/Q02vt_2f0

The IT Investment Guide for Moldova features not only desktop research, but insight from 970 C-level executives across 7 markets, 218 MITP residents, and 20 IT leaders from across the globe.

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29/04/2024

For the She's Next Empowered by Visa initiative, we surveyed 2,000 female entrepreneurs and held in-depth interviews with over 75 female business leaders across 11 different markets.

Key Finding #2 — EDUCATION IS KEY FOR SCALING A BUSINESS

Any woman can start a small business, but when it comes to scaling up our research suggests that the higher the level of education, the more successful the female entrepreneur will be.

🇬🇧 PROFICIENCY IN ENGLISH

Only 32% of women whose businesses operate locally have at least a limited working proficiency in English.

When we look at female entrepreneurs operating globally, this number more than doubles to 67.4%

🎓 DEGREES

Women conducting business internationally are usually more educated with 69% having at least a bachelor’s degree.

For comparison, for local businesses, this figure is about 38%.

👉🏼 Want to discover more insight? Get your copy of the Female Entrepreneurship in Eastern and Southeastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus report: https://hubs.la/Q02vglgX0

25/04/2024

Last week, our founding partner Andrew Wrobel joined EIT Food and hosted an event focused on encouraging more to come up with solutions across the CEE region.

The challenge is enormous.

Currently, there are 2.2 million female entrepreneurs in the region, and 20% of them employ staff.

At the same time, women receive just 1% of the deployed to entrepreneurs, while 5% goes to mixed-sex founders and 94% to all-male teams.

Furthermore, 93% of the investing in the region are represented by men.

Six practitioners joined the discussion to identify solutions and share that could help include the agrifood aspect in women’s entrepreneurial support programmes and gender in agrifood entrepreneurship programmes.

Here are 5 key areas that can make a strong impact:

👩🏻‍🔧 Strengthening self-confidence
➕ Peer-to-peer support, mentorship and role models
🌳 Focusing on rural areas
📈 Educating venture capital funds
📊 Gathering the necessary data

https://hubs.la/Q02tRqmB0

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23/04/2024

Moldova offers a on sales income to residents of the Moldova Innovation Technology Park (MITP) and their employees, set at a favourable rate of 7%.

This tax streamlines the taxation process by replacing seven other taxes and fees, including , tax, and contributions at the level of employer and employee, local taxes, road taxes, and real estate taxes.

👉🏼 Get your hands on a wealth of insight about Europe's next tech powerhouse: https://hubs.la/Q02tNHfK0

The IT Investment Guide for Moldova features not only desktop research, but insight from 970 C-level executives across 7 markets, 218 MITP residents, and 20 IT leaders from across the globe.

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22/04/2024

For the She's Next Empowered by Visa in partnership with Emerging Europe initiative, we surveyed 2,000 female entrepreneurs and held in-depth interviews with over 75 female business leaders across 11 different markets.

KEY FINDING #1 — What drives female entrepreneurs

Women in the region want a better life, and their own company is a means to achieve this goal.

Here are the 3 main reasons they embark on the entrepreneurial path:

💶 50.3% to make more money

👩🏼‍💼 30.8% to work for myself, not for somebody else’s company

🎯 20.5% to fulfil my professional dream

💡 The research results show that there are, however, significant differences between age groups

A willingness to earn more was mentioned by the highest number – 53.1% – of respondents between the ages of 25 and 34, decreasing after that to as low as 42% after the age of 54.

In contrast, willingness to work for themselves is mentioned only by 26% of women between 18 and 24 and already by 36.2% – between 45 and 54.

👉🏼 Get your copy of the Female Entrepreneurship in Eastern and Southeastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus report here https://hubs.la/Q02tBZvJ0

17/04/2024

A new threat to Hungary's Orbán

The largest protest against and his party for several years took place in Budapest on April 6, attended by a crowd whose numbers ran well into the 100s of thousands.

It was notably different from previous anti-Orbán demonstrations. There was nary an EU nor opposition flag in sight and the crowd was in large part older than would be expected.

It was a sign that amid economic strains and shifting political loyalties, even Orbán's former allies and supporters are now ready for change: https://hubs.la/Q02sxdn30

15/04/2024

Economy in focus:

To prevent falling further behind its neighbours and to reach its full potential, Latvia needs to address its uneven growth focused on the capital, .

It also has to deal with its shrinking population—it's lost almost 30% since 1990 and could lose another 23.5% by 2050, the United Nations' Department of Economic and Social Affairs predicts.

The country should also diversify its economy more and invest in its people's skills. It certainly has the know-how to do so: https://hubs.la/Q02sx8pL0